The mission of the Summer School is to provide interdisciplinary training of young university professors, researchers and PhD students for teaching and doing research in cognitive science. The participants will come from various fields such as psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neurosciences, computer science, anthropology and they will be offered the possibility for team work in an interdisciplinary environment. They will learn new advanced material from leading researchers in the world, they will learn how to teach cognitive science, they will do project work, etc. As result of this they are expected to update the courses they are teaching at their universities, start interdisciplinary research and teaching and involve their students in their research projects. This should provide the seed for establishment of interdisciplinary cognitive science teams in Central and East Europe as well as to strenghten the cognitive science community in this part of the world.

International Advisory Board

Each participant will enroll in 6 of the 10 courses offered thus attending:
4 hours classes per day plus
2 hours tutorials in small groups plus
individual studies and participation in symposia.

Time table

New Approaches to Evolution and Development - Elizabeth Bates (Univ. of California at San Diego, USA) Child Language Acquisition - Michael Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany) Culture and Cognition - Roy D'Andrade (U. of California at San Diego, USA) Understanding Social Dependence and Cooperation - Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR, Italy) The Models of Human Memory - Richard Shiffrin (Indiana University, USA) Categorization and Inductive Reasoning... - Evan Heit (Univ. of Warwick, UK) Understanding Human Thinking - Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria) Perception-Based Spatial Reasoning - Reinhard Moratz (Hamburg University, Germany) Approaches to Visual Perception - Naum Yakimoff (New Bulgarian University)

Local Organizers
New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarian Cognitive Science Society

Local Organizing Committee
Boicho Kokinov - School Director, Elena Andonova, Guergana Yancheva, Iliana Haralanova

Sponsors
Open Society Institute - Budapest, Open Society Fund - Sofia, Cognitive Science Society (USA).